Use Squiid with
Devin
Devin needs credentials for every service your project touches. Give it one instead: SQUIID_API_KEY in .env, and every service in the catalog behind it.
What Devin is
Devin is Cognition autonomous software engineer. It works in its own cloud workspace with a shell, an editor and a browser, takes a task description, plans, writes code, runs it and opens pull requests. Because the workspace is remote rather than on your machine, every credential it needs has to be given to it deliberately, which is where a single gateway key changes the calculus.
The problem: every agent wants keys
The moment a coding agent stops writing a component and starts wiring up a product, it needs credentials. A database URL for Supabase. A deploy token for Vercel. An API key for Resend. Another for Twilio, another for Stripe, another for whichever model provider the feature calls. Each one is a signup, a dashboard, a billing relationship and a secret that has to exist somewhere Devin can reach.
What happens next is worse than a long .env file. People paste secrets into prompts to get better answers, and keys end up in chat transcripts, in screenshots posted for help, and in committed config. Because each key belongs to a different vendor, rotating one after a leak means finding it, regenerating it and updating every place it was copied to.
The fix: one key, one convention
Squiid holds the upstream credentials for every service in the catalog. Your project gets one variable:
SQUIID_API_KEY=sq_live_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Then every call your app or your agent makes goes to the gateway with that one key:
curl https://api.squiid.io/v1/supabase/... \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $SQUIID_API_KEY"
Official SDKs take a base URL, so most integrations are a one line change rather than a rewrite:
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js';
const db = createClient(
'https://api.squiid.io/v1/supabase',
process.env.SQUIID_API_KEY,
);
That is the gateway convention: https://api.squiid.io/v1/<service>/ with Authorization: Bearer $SQUIID_API_KEY. It is the same for every service, which is why an agent only has to learn it once. Full detail is on the gateway convention page.
Setting it up in Devin
- Devin has a secrets area in its settings where you store credentials that sessions can use. Add
SQUIID_API_KEYthere rather than individual provider keys. Check the Devin documentation for the current name and location of that panel. - Devin also supports persistent knowledge or playbooks. Record the gateway convention there so every session starts knowing the base URL and header.
- Keep the repository
.env.exampleup to date with justSQUIID_API_KEY, since that is what Devin will copy when it sets up the project.
What it costs
Usage is paid from prepaid credits at par: $1 of credit is $1 at the provider, no markup. The free plan is $0/month with a 15% fee on credit top-ups and a $50 minimum top-up. Solo is $19.97/month and its top-up fee starts at 8%, falling to 6.5%, 5% and 3.5% as trailing 30-day API spend passes $100, $500 and $2,000. Team is $29.97 per seat per month for seats 1-5, $24.97 for seats 6-20 and $19.97 above that, with the same ladder one point lower. Custom pricing is 3% or less against a commitment. Subscription-priced services such as Supabase Pro at $25 a month pass through at the provider price with no fee. Credits pause at zero rather than overdrawing, with alerts at 75%, 90% and 100%. See spend controls.
Services agents ask for most
The eight services that come up first in almost every Devin project, all reachable with the same key.
Supabase
DatabasePostgres with auth, storage and realtime.
Vercel
HostingDeploy from a git push, preview per branch.
Resend
EmailTransactional email in one POST request.
Twilio
MessagingSMS, voice and phone numbers worldwide.
Cloudflare R2
StorageR2 object storage, Workers, KV and D1.
Stripe
PaymentsCheckout, subscriptions and webhooks.
Anthropic
LLM APIClaude models for app-side generation.
OpenAI
LLM APIChat, embeddings, images and audio.
Set it up in 3 steps
Add the services in Squiid
Create a Squiid account, top up credits, and click add on the services this project needs. Squiid provisions them upstream and keeps the provider credentials.
One line in .env
Put SQUIID_API_KEY=sq_live_… in .env and remove every provider key you were carrying. That is the whole secret surface of the project.
Tell Devin the convention
Write the base URL and the header into your project rules file so Devin generates correct calls without being reminded.
Questions people ask
How do I give Devin credentials without handing over my provider accounts?
Store one Squiid key in Devin secrets. Squiid holds the upstream provider credentials, so Devin can use your database, email and hosting while never possessing a credential that works outside the gateway. Revoking access is rotating one key.
Where does Devin store secrets?
In a secrets area in its settings, which sessions can reference. The exact location and naming have changed as the product has evolved, so check the current Cognition documentation before setting it up.
What if Devin runs a loop and burns through API usage?
Squiid credits are prepaid and pause at zero, with alerts at 75%, 90% and 100%. A runaway agent stops rather than producing an invoice. Auto top-up, if you enable it, takes a hard monthly cap you choose.
Can Devin add a new service to my Squiid account?
No, and that is intentional. Adding a paid upstream service is a click you make in the Squiid dashboard. Agents consume services, they do not open accounts.
Give Devin one key.
Not twelve.
One account, one API key, one bill and one dashboard for every service in the catalog your project needs.